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Radiomics-based prediction of personalized WMH burden was done using ElasticNet linear regression. We built a radiomic signature of WMH with stable selected features predictive of WMH burden and then related this signature to clinical variables using canonical correlation analysis (CCA).<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>Radiomic features were predictive of WMH burden (<jats:italic>R<\/jats:italic><jats:sup>2<\/jats:sup> = 0.855 \u00b1 0.011). Seven pairs of canonical variates (CV) significantly correlated the radiomics signature of WMH and clinical traits with respective canonical correlations of 0.81, 0.65, 0.42, 0.24, 0.20, 0.15, and 0.15 (FDR-corrected <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>-values<jats:sub><jats:italic>CV<\/jats:italic><\/jats:sub><jats:sub>1<\/jats:sub><jats:sub>\u2013<\/jats:sub><jats:sub>6<\/jats:sub> &amp;lt; 0.001, <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>-value<jats:sub><jats:italic>CV<\/jats:italic><\/jats:sub><jats:sub>7<\/jats:sub> = 0.012). The clinical CV1 was mainly influenced by age, CV2 by sex, CV3 by history of smoking and diabetes, CV4 by hypertension, CV5 by atrial fibrillation (AF) and diabetes, CV6 by coronary artery disease (CAD), and CV7 by CAD and diabetes.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title><jats:p>Radiomics extracted from T2-FLAIR images of AIS patients capture microstructural damage of the cerebral parenchyma and correlate with clinical phenotypes, suggesting different radiographical textural abnormalities per cardiovascular risk profile. 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